{"product_id":"9781468303711","title":"The English","description":" \"Modest, individualistic, ironic, [Paxman's] book has all the virtues he attributes to the English themselves.\" (Evelyn Toynton, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Not so long ago, everybody knew who the English were. They were \"polite, unexcitable, reserved, and had hot water bottles instead of a sex life.\" As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But now things are different, and no one is sure just what it means to be English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeremy Paxman explores English attitudes to the countryside, intellectuals, food, Catholicism, and the French, and brings together insights from novelists, historians, and gentleman farmers. Witty, surprising and incisive, \u003ci\u003eThe English\u003c\/i\u003e traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the 21st century. \u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: Jeremy Paxman is presently the anchorman for \u003ci\u003eNewsnight\u003c\/i\u003e, Britain's premier evening news program. His distinguished career in British television began in the mid-seventies with an assignment for the BBC in Northern Ireland. In addition to his writing for newspapers and magazines, he is the author of four other books. He lives on the border of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044389961968,"sku":"9781468303711","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781468303711_p0.jpg?v=1763695399","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781468303711","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}